The stealth bombers were extremely fragile; a few salvos could sink them. A chaotic melee erupted, and amidst the ferocious bombardment, three stealth bombers were sunk, sixs went down, and three others had their sterns ablaze, scurrying around like ants on a hot griddle.

Bai Lanxue was furious enough to burst a lung. She took personal command, adjusting a gun turret while shouting orders to her subordinates, "Take down their command ship!"

Her assistant, San Lier, eager to curry favor, immediately seized an adjacent turret. As he aimed, he suddenly spotted the insignia on the enemy command ship and exclaimed in surprise, "That’s the command ship of the Angel Domain!"

Bai Lanxue let out a cold snort. "I don't care which legion it is. Anyone who dares oppose us at a time like this gets annihilated. If you can't destroy it, bring back evidence and report to An Junlie!"

San Lier bowed low. "Yes, Secretary-General."

Colleen tracked Xiaoxiao all the way, and when she saw someone approaching after Xiaoxiao fired a signal flare, she chose to hide nearby to avoid detection, remaining silent.

However, somehow, an unexpected third party suddenly appeared and engaged in fierce combat.

They were fighting right under the nose of the Unified Command? They showed utter disregard for the Unified Command! Colleen, being young and impetuous, fired three shots towards the sky as a warning.

The Unified Command's cannons were intended not for attack but for demonstration; their sound penetration was exceptional, successfully cutting through the heavy shelling to reach the ears of both warring factions.

The red-haired woman showed utter contempt for the law, caring nothing for the Unified Command. But Bai Lanxue did not want to push her luck too far in front of the Command, lest she give them leverage later, and immediately ordered her fleet to retreat.

Seeing her intent to flee, the red-haired woman knew she couldn't stay to be captured either. With a sudden surge, she commanded her own forces to flee in the opposite direction.

Colleen only had one ship and a handful of female soldiers; she dared not give chase, watching helplessly as both sides vanished.

After a long pause, the chocolate beauty asked, "The person we released also got away. What now?"

Colleen belatedly slapped her forehead. "Oh, right. I put a tracker on him. Let's locate him now and pursue."

Xiaoxiao's corpse was still aboard Bai Lanxue's command ship—they hadn't disposed of it. Colleen and her team tracked his location and followed in pursuit of Bai Lanxue's vector.

On the other side, the red-haired woman escaped to a different star system and haphazardly found refuge at a space station in the Tem System.

The captain's piloting skills were exceptionally high; when the command ship came to a halt, the water in the glasses on the table remained perfectly still.

The red-haired woman stared at the captain for two seconds.

This captain had joined her command ship after boarding from a pirate vessel, piloting a mecha to take the helm. Even then, she had sensed that this person was excessively competent; now, her suspicions deepened.

The captain brought the command ship to a stop and turned around. Seeing the red-haired woman staring at him with burning intensity, he suddenly felt a pang of guilt and nervously touched his nose. "What is it?"

When the enemy paused, she stood still. The red-haired woman immediately calmed, her voice turning frosty. "Who are you?"

The captain hadn't expected her to discover the truth so quickly. He became so nervous his limbs didn't know where to rest, yet he didn't want to surrender so easily. "Who am I? My name is Tamuzer; I'm a native resident of the Tama System!"

The red-haired woman let out a cold laugh. "Don't lie to me! Your piloting style isn't that of a pirate. Which legion trained you?"

Seeing he couldn't conceal it any longer, the captain deflated like a punctured balloon, his tone instantly weak. "Captain of Ship Seven, Angel Legion Expeditionary Fleet."

The red-haired woman's lips twitched. "...Heh."

The captain, sensing the edge in her voice, rushed to explain, "Our Vice Commander is genuinely concerned about you."

The red-haired woman merely smiled. "It's fine, I won't blame you. Thank you for your efforts today."

If anyone was to blame, it was Lan Li.

She had been agonizing over whether he would show up, and in the end, he truly hadn't.

However, that wasn't her main concern right now. It was how Tamuzer managed to infiltrate the Tama Pirate Gang? If just anyone could slip in, the Tama Pirates were in grave danger.

She was feeling mentally drained and didn't press further. Waving a hand to dismiss him, she silently sat on the sofa, lost in thought.

This was An Junlie's exclusive command ship; the interior was quite comfortable, and two bottles of rose jelly were stored in the cold locker. She retrieved one without hesitation and began eating it. Halfway through, noticing Tamuzer watching her with an inexplicable gaze, she tilted her head. "There's another bottle. If you want some, just take it."

Tamuzer shrugged, turned his back, and pretended not to notice.

Having replenished her energy, the red-haired woman felt refreshed. She broadcast a departure signal, ordering Tamuzer to bring the command ship to join the fleet. "Back to Tama."

Tamuzer sighed in resignation and resumed his duties as the reluctant labor force.

As they warped towards the Tama System, the red-haired woman glanced out the viewport and found nothing unusual. She opened her optical computer to conduct a battle assessment.

Despite being the one who hated reading and writing the most, Teacher Zi Hong had a severe fixation on battle summaries. After every engagement, she would analyze the advantages and disadvantages and identify strategic shortcomings. This discipline was why she had been traversing the star seas for over a decade, growing stronger and more experienced with every fight, remaining undefeated to this day.

After finishing her summary, she opened the hyper-comm and spoke to Jiu Shou, who was leading the charge with the aircraft carrier. "It was sheer luck that we won this time."

Jiu Shou waved it off. "Impossible! With our strength, defeating them was child's play."

The red-haired woman countered, "No. The reason we won, besides the carrier drawing attention, was that the stealth bombers struck quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly, catching them completely off guard."

Jiu Shou immediately beamed. "That's right! With me here, victory is assured!"

The red-haired woman shot him a sidelong glance. "I wasn't finished. The carrier's role isn't fighting; it's logistics. If the Unified Command hadn't appeared, once they recovered, we would have ended up with mutual destruction."

Jiu Shou waved his hand dismissively. "That's irrelevant. What matters is we sank so many of their ships. That's cold, hard cash, hehe. I hear the salvage crews recovered some very valuable wreckage. We can make a tidy profit selling it."

The red-haired woman shook her head, deciding not to argue with him.

She looked over the deployment roster. The Tama System had almost emptied its coffers—only fifty-odd ships, pitifully few. Moreover, aside from the stealth bombers, the other ships were not equipped with the latest technology.

The most advanced gear was only two or three years old. If they encountered a well-equipped fleet, they wouldn't fare well.

The formidable red-haired woman sighed for the first time.

Whether the Wolf's Den had reserves was uncertain, and relying on the Sprout Group was impossible since Tama didn't belong to the Wolf's Den; it was merely a black-market force she established to aid the Den later. Who could she rely on?

Zi Ye's designs?

That seemed unlikely too.

Zi Ye hadn't even completed her studies, and even if she did, she couldn't cover every contingency. They had to rely on the market.

But how to generate the capital to purchase equipment?

The red-haired woman thought hard for a few minutes, then her eyes suddenly lit up. She opened her silver-comm and sent an encrypted message to Old Dog: "Remember that batch of potions from Fia?"

At that moment, the legion assembly had just concluded. Old Dog's heart tightened when he saw the message. "What are you planning?"

The red-haired woman replied, "Find an opportunity to bring it out and sell it. Then we'll have money."

Old Dog saw people coming and going around him and dared not say more. "We'll discuss it when we get back."

The red-haired woman wasn't in a hurry. She would quietly wait in the Tama System for the heat to die down, have Old Dog send her the exact coordinates of the medicine, and if Old Dog couldn't go, she would.

They had dared not move the stock before because Fia had been watching too closely.

Now, the heat had long passed, and everyone's attention was focused on the bombing of the Wolf's Den space station. No one was watching her. Furthermore, the Wolf's Den had secured sovereignty, making their actions justifiable; bringing it out now was no longer an issue.

Thus, the red-haired woman consulted experts in the Tama Pirates familiar with such matters, finalized her deployment plan, and stealthily brought out the smuggling ship sunk at the bottom of the ocean, swapping it for a regular transport vessel. After leaving that star sector, she commanded the robots to destroy the smuggling ship.

The smuggling ship exploded over the barren ocean surface and then sank, resting in eternal sleep on the seabed.

The red-haired woman piloted the transport ship, carrying the pharmaceuticals to the Ou Guang System, where the 'Perverted Freak' had his Rose Garden.

The Perverted Freak was shocked to see the red-haired woman. "Are you insane!"

The red-haired woman's expression was animated. "Don't be like that. I just need you to do me a favor. Add something to the potions, run them through your production line, and change the packaging."

The Perverted Freak snapped, "If I die someday, it'll definitely be from anger caused by you!"

The red-haired woman said nothing, pulled out a lighter, and aimed it at the hair of his favorite G-system little girl. "One word: are you in or out?"

Refuse? Burn the hair!

The Perverted Freak, unwilling to argue further, stomped angrily into the rose garden.

The red-haired woman cheerfully lit a cigarette with the lighter. Yes, the Perverted Freak truly loved lolis more than himself. She had won again.

At midnight that same night, the potions were re-packaged on the production line. The red-haired woman moved the drugs through several channels, laundering the capital like currency, before selling them.

As for the severe consequences those pharmaceuticals might bring, that was outside the scope of her current concerns.

Completing all these tasks took only about a month. She opened a new account, deposited one hundred billion credits, and sent a silver-comm to Zi Ye: "Girl, come out. I have something to give you."

Zi Ye had just finished a Dreadnought, looking haggard but smiling brightly. "Come to the Air Force Assembly Workshop. I have something to give you too."

The red-haired woman, in a rare good mood, took a small shuttle and set off while saying, "You better have a good gift for me, or it won't be worth me crossing twenty star systems to find you."

Zi Ye simply replied, "If you get angry, you can just throw me out into space."

The red-haired woman gave her a sidelong glance.

The red-haired woman expected Zi Ye to give her a few mechas or something, never imagining the gift would be an actual Dreadnought!!!

Upon seeing the gift, the red-haired woman lunged forward like a hungry wolf, aggressively rubbing her proud chest against it, "Little stinker, you are my salvation, you must be!"

Being someone who practiced martial arts constantly, her limbs were powerful, and her chest was equally forceful. Zi Ye nearly spat blood from the strength of the press. "Let go of your creamy bosom!"

The red-haired woman laughed heartily and tossed her a card. "One hundred billion. Use it as you like."

Zi Ye was stunned by her lavish gesture. "What are you doing? I wouldn't be worth this much even if I sold myself!"